Season six of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 27, 1993 and concluded on May 25, 1994. The season contained eight new episodes and began with the film Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage.

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Thomas Lennon (filmmaker)
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Thomas F. Lennon is a documentary filmmaker. Thomas F. Lennon has alternated between historical and contemporary subject matter and he co-directed the HBO film Unchained Memories, along with Ed Bell, based on readings from the WPA slave narratives. With filmmaker Ruby Yang, he mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over 900 million times on Chinese television. Three weeks after the Oscar nomination, the government of Bengbu, in Anhui. He recently completed Sacred, an exploration of the role of prayer and ritual in daily life, to be aired on PBS. He is editing a film about the launch of an haute cuisine French restaurant in Cleveland, Edwins. Lennon lives and works in New York City and he is married to the medical researcher Joan Reibman, best known for her work on the health of 9/11 survivors. He is at times confused with the writer-comedian Thomas Lennon and has twice had to send back large royalty checks, knife Skills ″Sacred Producer & Director. Shot by 40 filmmaking teams worldwide, film Festivals, Hong Kong, DocNYC, Amsterdam, Biarritz, Sebastopol, etc. Due to air PBS2017 ″The Trail from Xingjiang Senior Creative Consultant Angle of Attack – writer, cinematographer, Oscar nominee, Documentary Short Subject Tongzhi in Love – producer

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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field about the American women who went to work during World War II to do mens jobs. In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The films title refers to Rosie the Riveter, the icon that represented women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions. The reminiscences are intercut with the realities of the period – old news, films, recruiting trailers, March of Time clips, the film was released in movie theaters in the United States, England and Australia to rave reviews. The Los Angeles Times called it warm, engaging and poignant and went on to say the film has that Studs Terkel-like ability to discover the extraordinary in seemingly ordinary people. Of the Rosies themselves The London Times said the resilience, spirit and humour of Connie Fields indomitable heroines sends you out elated and it was originally broadcast on PBS’s American Experience and numerous international TV stations such as Channel 4 in England and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The film has been in distribution for over 30 years. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, records of The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter Project, 1974-1980. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

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Wild by Law
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Wild by Law, The Rise of Environmentalism and the Creation of the Wilderness Act is a 1991 documentary film produced by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the film is about the work of Aldo Leopold, Bob Marshall, founder of The Wilderness Society and Howard Zahniser. The film gives the philosophical and political underpinnings of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and it was narrated by Linda Hunt. Wild by Law at the Internet Movie Database

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Freedom on My Mind
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It is the first film to chronicle, in depth, the story of Freedom Summer in Mississippi. It was produced and directed by Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford and it is the story of youthful idealism and shared vision, of a generation who believed in and fought for the principles of democracy. Participants interviewed include Robert Parris Moses, Victoria Gray Adams, Endesha Ida Mae Holland, and Freedom Summer volunteers Marshall Ganz, Heather Booth, in 1961, Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. There were virtually no black voters, bob Moses entered the state and the Mississippi Voter Registration Project began. The first black farmer who attempted to register was fatally shot by a Mississippi State Representative, but four years later, the registration was open. By 1990, Mississippi had more elected black officials than any state in the country. As the New York Times said in their review of the film and it emphasizes the strategic brilliance of Mississippis young, black organizers. Barred from political participation, they created their own integrated party - the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and they recruited a thousand mostly white students from around the country to come to Mississippi, bringing the eyes and conscience of the nation with them. They demanded equality and justice from the highest official in the land - the President - confronting the countrys leading politicians to live up to the values they professed to hold. Freedom on My Mind provides a panorama of a turbulent time. The legacy of that time, the achievements and failures, remain with us today and it was broadcast on PBS’s American Experience and internationally, and has been used educationally in colleges and universities around the world. The film received positive reviews. As political history this is superlative stuff. ”The San Francisco Examiner called it a great success. Critic John Petrakis, of The Chicago Tribune, explained the film thusly, Freedom On My Mind is a story of courage on the front lines in the battle against fear and ignorance. It is also a story of political savvy led to political action. But mostly, its a story of America, in all its glory and all its shame

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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane aired January 29,1996, as an episode of the Public Broadcast Systems The American Experience series. The documentary was narrated by Richard Ben Cramer, who co-wrote the program with Thomas Lennon, in Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearsts. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, the deal gave him creative control under a budget limit. While married to Millicent Hearst, he kept a mistress over twenty years his junior, Davies had been a silent film-era star who worked on a number of talkies, but with less success. After the release of Citizen Kane to relatively positive reviews and largely indifferent popular response, Orson Welles moved on to his second project. However, after Citizen Kane did not become a money-maker, The Magnificent Ambersons was wrested from his control, RKO re-edited the film itself and released it. William Randolph Hearst died in 1951, Orson Welles died in 1985, the events chronicled in The Battle Over Citizen Kane were dramatized in the 1999 HBO film, RKO281. 281 was the production name of Citizen Kane. The Battle Over Citizen Kane was extremely well received by critics, the documentary received some criticism by scholars and critics, including Jonathan Rosenbaum, for trying to tie the personalities of Welles and Hearst too closely together. David Walsh observed, This sort of superficial comparison—a cat has a head, … The documentary filmmakers fail to make any reference to this social and political context. Furthermore, because they identify success with a career and a steady income. Film scholar James Naremore served as a consultant for The Battle Over Citizen Kane, while praising its use of archival footage, he dismissed the central thesis that Welles and Hearst were alike, which he described as a tabloid trick worthy of News on the March. Hearst, on the hand, was a political reactionary who used the vast fortune he had inherited to assemble a relatively unremarkable private art collection. We can only hope that someday a good documentary on the making of Kane will be available, Naremore concluded. On September 25,2001, Turner Home Entertainment released a version of Citizen Kane taken from the best available print. The documentary was included in both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the 2011 70th anniversary re-issue of the film. The Battle over Citizen Kane at the Internet Movie Database The Battle over Citizen Kane at the TCM Movie Database

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Return with Honor
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Return with Honor is a 1999 documentary film about American prisoners of war in the Vietnam War. Among those profiled is Senator John McCain and it is narrated by Tom Hanks. Directors Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders won the Best Film award at the 1999 Cleveland International Film Festival and it was released on VHS on June 13,2000, and on DVD on April 24,2001. Return with Honor at the Internet Movie Database Return with Honor at the TCM Movie Database Return with Honor at AllMovie